Pub. Resources Code, § 5003.03

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section, to provide for the acquisition, planning, and operation of a state park project located on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay. The state park project shall consist of a contiguous shoreline park and bay trail along the east shore of the San Francisco Bay from the Bay Bridge to the Marina Bay Trail in Richmond, serving as a recreational facility within its natural setting developed in concert with a public planning process agreeable to the state and the East Bay Regional Park District.

(b) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) “Department” means the Department of Parks and Recreation.

(2) “District” means the East Bay Regional Park District.

(3) “Shoreline park” means a state park project as described in subdivision (a).

(c) For the purpose of the acquisition, planning, and development of the shoreline park, the district shall act as agent for the state and, as the state’s agent, shall have the authority to exercise all of the district’s powers for the purposes of acquiring, planning, and developing the shoreline park. The district shall be reimbursed by the state for any direct costs that the district incurs in carrying out these activities, upon appropriation therefor by the Legislature. By appointing the district as agent for the state, it is the intent of the Legislature to direct the state and the district to act in an expeditious manner towards the acquisition, planning, and development of the shoreline park.

(d) The department and the district shall negotiate, in good faith, an agreement specifying the activities necessary to accomplish the acquisition, planning, and development of the shoreline park. The agreement shall set forth the roles and responsibilities of the district and the department. Upon execution of the agreement, the remainder of the funds in Items 3790-490-742(2) and 3790-490-721(0.5) of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 1992 shall be encumbered for the purposes set forth in the agreement.

(e) All property interests acquired pursuant to this section shall be held as a unit of the state park system.

(f) All costs associated with the appraisal and acquisition process, including any costs necessary to test for the presence of toxic wastes, hazardous wastes, or hazardous substances, shall come from bond funds which have been designated for the shoreline park project acquisition.

(g) The district shall not assume any responsibility or liability or costs associated with the necessary cleanup of any pollution or remediation of other environmental problems that exist as of January 1, 1993, or that may thereafter arise, on any property acquired for the shoreline park using state funds.

(h) The district, in consultation with the affected cities and their citizens, shall develop, in accordance with its master plan process, a land use development plan for the shoreline park, which, upon completion, shall be submitted to the department for approval. The land use development plan shall be consistent with the general plans of the affected cities. The district and the department shall utilize the 1982 Feasibility Study as the initial planning document for the shoreline park, recognizing that the park shall be a recreational facility harmonious with its natural setting.

(i) When a parcel of land is determined to be available for acquisition for the shoreline park, the district shall notify the department and the department shall expeditiously pursue through the appropriate state process the release of the necessary funding for the acquisition, including all related costs, from funds available pursuant to subparagraph (I) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 5907.

(j) Upon completion of the acquisition and planning process, the full remediation of any and all environmental problems, and provision of funding for the development and operation and maintenance of the park, the department and the district shall negotiate , in good faith, a mutually acceptable agreement for the management and operation of the shoreline park.